National League Park

About National League Park

National League Park is a former name of Braves Field, used 1936–1941. Braves Field was a College Football, MLB and NFL stadium in Boston, Massachusetts. It opened in 1915 and closed in 1952. Its last recorded capacity was 40,000. Tenants included Boston Braves (MLB, 1915–1952), Boston College Eagles (College Football, 1916–1952) and Boston Braves (NFL, 1932). In all, 3 teams from 3 leagues have called it home. On our ranked lists it ranks 59th for most name changes among 125 venues with 3 or more names, 31st for most tenants among 67 venues with 3 or more teams and 132nd shortest-lived of 273 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years. It has also been known as The Bee Hive (1936–1941).

Appears in

• 59th for most name changes among 125 venues with 3 or more names
• 31st for most tenants among 67 venues with 3 or more teams
• 132nd shortest-lived of 273 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years
• 29th for most name changes among 71 football stadiums with 3 or more names
• 54th shortest-lived of 142 football stadiums with known opening and closing years
• 14th for most name changes among 25 NFL stadiums with 3 or more names
• 21st shortest-lived of 55 NFL stadiums with known opening and closing years
• 21st for most name changes among 57 College Football stadiums with 3 or more names
• 41st shortest-lived of 110 College Football stadiums with known opening and closing years
• 12th for most name changes among 20 MLB stadiums with 3 or more names
• 53rd shortest-lived of 83 MLB stadiums with known opening and closing years
• 24th longest single tenancy (37 years) of the 100 longest on record in MLB stadiums

Venue Information

Location derived from the venue's coordinates using data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Elevation of the venue's coordinates from USGS and NASA SRTM elevation data, via Open Topo Data.

The site today

• Nickerson Field now stands on or beside the site.

From OpenStreetMap data near the venue's recorded coordinates, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Maps show what is there now, not the old footprint.

Teams

Records are each team's full-season results while it was based here, home and away games alike, from final scores. They are not records of games played at this venue.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

Where the facts on this page were read from. How VenueStats compiles them.

• Open Topo Data (Public domain): Elevation.
• OpenStreetMap (ODbL): What stands on the site today.
• OpenStreetMap Nominatim (ODbL): Location.
• VenueStats compilation: Coordinates (compiled by VenueStats; no outside source was kept for this point), Opening and closing years, name history and teams (compiled by VenueStats from Sports Reference and Wikipedia).
• Wikipedia (CC BY-SA): Capacity.